From 075f7f71868be2b21fa6f6c49355db3df53c3926 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jan=20H=C3=B6ppner?= Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:59:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] zipl/man: Only mention 3490 tape devices MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Virtual Tape Server (VTS) only supports 3490 tape devices. Remove all other older device types from the man pages. Reviewed-by: Jens Remus Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner --- zipl/man/zipl.8.in | 2 +- zipl/man/zipl.conf.5.in | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/zipl/man/zipl.8.in b/zipl/man/zipl.8.in index 38f23032..503aff20 100644 --- a/zipl/man/zipl.8.in +++ b/zipl/man/zipl.8.in @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ or configuration section on the command line at the same time. Install a system dump record on the device identified by DEVNODE. Supported devices are DASD ECKD or FBA disk partitions, device mapper multipath partitions of FCP attached SCSI disks, -partitions of NVMe disks and IBM 3480/3490/3590/3592 tape devices. +partitions of NVMe disks and IBM 3490 tape devices. For CCW-type DASD dump, zlib compression is used to compress the dump data before writing it to the DASD ECKD partition. Zlib compression diff --git a/zipl/man/zipl.conf.5.in b/zipl/man/zipl.conf.5.in index efce34af..7c6224ee 100644 --- a/zipl/man/zipl.conf.5.in +++ b/zipl/man/zipl.conf.5.in @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ indicates the menu name. .B Configuration section: .br Specify a DASD partition, device mapper multipath partition device node of a -SCSI disk, a NVMe partition or an IBM 3480/3490/3590 tape device on which to +SCSI disk, a NVMe partition or an IBM 3490 tape device on which to install a system dump record. Once a device prepared in such a way is booted, the current system status is written in a raw format to that device and can later be retrieved using the @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ file. .IP .B Configuration section: .br -Specify a IBM 3480/3490/3590 tape device on which to install a boot record. +Specify a IBM 3490 tape device on which to install a boot record. This option cannot be used together with .BR 'target' ", "